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Thank you guys.
Yes Mariano, I will use the hole in the collar as a guide to make the hole in the scales, and then pass the pins through all 3, guard, collar and scales. Of course guard and scales have blind holes...

Bill, they rest in the holders, that are made to fix tight. I make them interchangeable so it can be use for different sizes of bars. But so far I always used the 10 mm size.
And the spring in the handle side also helps.

Superglue to the bond collar and scales, tighten with the brand new fix I learned from John White's WIP yesterday (isn't internet great?? Thank you John for that tip!)

Making the hole in the scale

Checking...

This is a useful resource, I apply epoxi to the back of the handle, and add a nut. The epoxi will hold the nut in place which will let me grab it to the filling clamp I will use later on, and will also keep the scales from opening up while grinding them down.

Good evening friends,
It is a risk to make this WIPs in real time, not doubt about it... Many things can go wrong, and sometimes they do.
The mammoth scales didn't make it, those little bastards start bending, to the point I had to discard them, maybe the where not fully dried out...
I didn't have a mammoth replacement so I chose to finish it with a piece of hardwood.
Supposedly it's urunday, but I don't see it similar to the pictures I've seen of other pieces of it, either way it's really nice looking, and REALLY hard, a real pleasure to work with.

I wanted to be sure not to mess it up this time, so I waited until I was sure every thing was OK, and I think now everything is.

(Super glue there...)

This part is all similar to the first ones, so not much to see show here...

Debonder

This time I did everything buy hand, didn't want the heat to mess anything up